Title :
Manufacturability analysis of standard cell libraries
Author :
Heineken, H.T. ; Khare, J. ; Abreu, M.D.
Author_Institution :
Level One Commun., Sacramento, CA, USA
Abstract :
Time-to-market and resource limitations typically drive fabless design houses to invest in commercial standard cell libraries. Selecting the appropriate library, however, is nontrivial, and is made harder when only a few select cells are provided for analysis. In this paper a methodology is presented to efficiently compare multiple cell libraries from a manufacturability perspective. In addition, an application is presented that indicates the effort required to build an internal library may be well warranted for high volume designs
Keywords :
CAD/CAM; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit manufacture; IC design; IC manufacture; high volume designs; internal library; manufacturability analysis; multiple cell libraries; semiconductor industry; standard cell libraries; wafer productivity; yield; Contamination; Costs; Design for manufacture; Design optimization; Fabrication; Integrated circuit modeling; Libraries; Manufacturing; Productivity; Time to market;
Conference_Titel :
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 1998. Proceedings of the IEEE 1998
Conference_Location :
Santa Clara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4292-5
DOI :
10.1109/CICC.1998.694991
